Improvement in horse hay-rakes



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IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE HAY-RAKES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and meking part vof the same.

I, OLE O. STORLE, of North Cape, in the county of Racine, in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain Improvements in Horse Hay-Rakes, of which the following is a specification.

Nature and Object of the Invention.

Gen-eral Description.

A is the axle-tree.

B, the shafts.

C, the rake-head.

D D, corrugated ears by which the rake-head is ifastened to the axle-tree.

E E, bolts which fasten the ears D together.

F, crank-pin on one part of the ear.

Gr, iron on, the rake-head which connects the rakehead to the ears.

H; teeth-cleaners fastened on the top of axle-tree. I, iron on the rake-head to which the lock is fast ened.

K, leve'r with which the rake is raised and lowered.

L, iron pivoted to lever K at oneend, and the other fastened to the cross-bar ofthe shafts.

M, stop-piece on iron L.

N, swinging latch or stop, its center pivoted to lever K, with a half-round slot in its lower end to rest on stop M when the rake is raised.

The iron I','lever K, iron L, stop M, and late-l1 N form a holding device to hold up the rake, and to raise and lower the rake when raking.

O O, ears on't-he cross-bnr of the shafts to hold the end of iron L, and on which it moves.

Whenever it is necessary to change the rake to make the teeth press harder or lighter on the ground, loosen nuts or bolts E and move one-half of the ear around into another corrugatiou, and then set up the nut, and the work is'done; and, when the `rake is moved without raking, raise up lever K and bring latch N over stop M, and let the lower eud of latch N reston stop M, and the teeth of the rake, will he elevated. Y

Claim.

The arrangement of viron I, lever K, iron 1J, stop M, and latch N with eye-boltsO, forming,r a locking device, substantially as described.

-OLE O. STORLE.

Vitnesses:

J. B.,SMITH, W'. M. Hormon. 

